Thanks to Marc Kuszel and Arie de Reus for information and to Hans Seegers, Gerd Rundel, Simon Blokker

and a barcode like that of the Columbia JC 33235 “Jazz Masterpieces” series release. The sleeve has “JC 33235” on the spine. The record comes in astereo vinyl LP releases (third US commercial pressing), Columbia PC 33235/JC 33235 (USA), 1976-77: CBS ASF 1837 (South Africa) - detail of Side 1, scan by Manuel García Jara (first late 1970s release) bit compressed from the normal version when not played through a CX expander." According to Wikipedia, CX ( Compatible E xpansion) was

third) release rear sleeve. The second and third release records were also made in Italy by CBS Sugar and havelike my listed 1975 copy and the two 1976 copies above in a plain maroon card inner sleeve with catalogue acceptable, although not according to Richard) amount ofdynamic rangecompression. Relatively few hardware decoder This release manufactured in Holland for distribution in Europe has the second picture by David Oppenheim as the design on the I don’t know exactly, but it sure sounds to me like they used the original tapes for making this. I’ve read some fan speculation on various and sundry audiophile forums, with some claiming that it was cloned from a pristine test pressing while others suggest that perhaps it was made off the original stampers. The latter is unlikely because the serial numbers on the run out groove don’t seem match that of the original test pressing ( there is one posted on Discogs and its discussed a lot on the web). So, I suspect its an entirely new LP master reassembled from the master mixes which no doubt reside in the archives. Thanks to Manuel García Jara and Dag Braathen for information and scans. Thanks to Ronald Born for the scan of a